Boubouille posted confirmation this morning on what will, and will not, be part of 4.0.3a. I thought that it was interesting enough information that I wanted to pass it on, for those wondering exactly what to expect here in the next week or so. I don’t think that there is anything that will be a huge surprise to anyone that has been following the Cataclysm news, but we did finally receive a confirmation that the new race/class combos will be live with 4.0.3a. I’ve reproduced the information for you below:

What is not in:

Creating worgen/goblin characters

Worgen/Goblin start zones

Archeology

Professions past 450 (Illustrious Grand Master)

Guild leveling

Guild achievements

Eastern Kingdoms/Kalimdor flight

New Zones (80+)

What is in:

Portals in Dalaran/Shattrath Removed

Class trainers in Dalaran where portals once were

New race-class combinations (excluding worgen/goblin)

New Gnome/Troll starting areas

Changes to existing zones

New cata load screens

New cata intro cinematic

New cata login screen

New music

City Quartermasters, with rep tabards

Bug fixes

Class balancing

Druids, paladins, priests, and shaman will have their talent trees reset

Experience required to gain levels 71 through 80 is being reduced by 20%

New tamable hunter pets (Monkey, fox, dog, and beetle, as well as new skins for existing pet classes.)

I’m pretty excited that I’ll be able to get my race change done before December 7, however significantly less excited about the prospect of a talent tree wipe :( Is there anything on this list that catches your eye? Anything you are happy, or unhappy to see go live (or not) with 4.0.3a?

13 responses to “Just A Quickie – 4.0.3a Information!”

I’m really excited to see the new race/class combos and the new leveling zones be implemented. I started leveling a few things on the Beta and it was so exciting and it really brought some new life to something I swore I wouldn’t do very much, this time around (i.e. level a lot of alts). Right now, I have a Draenei enhancement shaman at level 20 that I enjoy. I have never been an RPer, until as of lately and I’m excited to have her leave Bloodmyst Isle and see a really wrecked up world in front of her.

As luck would have it, I just re-specced my priest a smidge the other day and now they’re going to refund our points again soon. Awful timing!

I’m also excited about the city quartermasters and tabards. Now I can those titles and mounts I had been ogling, since I re-rolled.:)

I like the fact that they are reducing exp required for 71-80, that should make it possible for me to level my shaman before cataclysm hits. I am also happy about the race/class combo changes, tauren pally, here I come!
I am not happy about the healer classes getting reset, does this imply huge changes?

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